With its newly refined vision, the “Cosmos Hub is taking its place within the interchain,” says Ethan Buchman, the Cosmos co-founder and head of Cosmos research and development shop Informal Systems. “[The Hub] is still not going to dominate the interchain or own the whole interchain or bring everyone under its umbrella,” explained Buchman, but “it’s trying to offer services to the larger interchain that help enable it, help support it, [and] help it thrive and grow.”